Rams' Matt Gay: More of the same w over Bucs

Contents:

• BUCNEERS CUT MATT GAY
• MATT GAY’S MISS SEALS TAMPA BAY BUCNEERS’ VASTATG LOSS TO GIANTS
• MATT GAY EMBRACG PRSUR OF BUCS' PAST KICKG WO, IMPENDG FATHERHOOD
• BUCS KICKER MATT GAY SAYS HE WAS BULLIED BEE OF HIS LAST NAME, WILL WEAR ANTI-BULLYG CLEATS
• MATT GAY ALG WH GRO JURY HEADG TO WEEK 16
• MATT GAY IS THE LATT FACE OF HEARTBREAK TAMPA BAY, AND THAT’S A SHAME
• WHAT KICKER MATT GAY BRGS TO THE BUCS
• RAMS' MATT GAY: MORE OF THE SAME W OVER BUCS

BUCNEERS CUT MATT GAY

A year after spendg a fifth-round draft pick on him, the Bucneers are sayg goodbye to kicker Matt is beg waived and Ryan Sucp will be the Bucneers’ kicker Week One, NFL Network cisn to draft Gay was a bad one, and ’s pound by the fact that the Bucneers of all teams should have known not to draft a kicker. In the last five NFL drafts, the two hight-picked kickers were Gay (145th overall 2019) and Roberto Aguayo (59th overall 2016). StatsRegular SeasonCareerESPN Fantasy Projectn: Gay beme one of the league's hight-paid kickers durg the offseason, signg wh the Colts after three seasons wh the Rams.

Gay nailed 28-of-30 field goals (93.3%) 2022 and, cludg the playoffs, is 86-of-94 (91.5%) sce 2020.

MATT GAY’S MISS SEALS TAMPA BAY BUCNEERS’ VASTATG LOSS TO GIANTS

Gay has also been a fantasy star sce enterg the league 2019. Gay fished fifth 2021 and hung on for 14th 2022 spe the Rams' offensive wo.

MATT GAY EMBRACG PRSUR OF BUCS' PAST KICKG WO, IMPENDG FATHERHOOD

Mut after a 32-31 feat to the Giants when rookie kicker Matt Gay missed a potential game-wng goal om 34-yards, the Bucs new head ach said he took a lay a game penalty before centerg the football between the hash marks bee the kick is easier when ’s not so close to the goalposts. ’’Gay, who kicked four field goals the game, had already missed an extra pot om that same distance wi left and had another one the name of Roberto Aguayo, Nick Folk and Chandler Catanzaro was Arians thkg? As turned out, Gay phed the kick right and missed htg the upright by the width of a football.

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BUCS KICKER MATT GAY SAYS HE WAS BULLIED BEE OF HIS LAST NAME, WILL WEAR ANTI-BULLYG CLEATS

-- Wh 0:28 remag the Tampa Bay Bucneers' send preason game agast the Miami Dolphs, Bucs rookie kicker Matt Gay took three steps back, two across and nailed a 48-yard field goal a 16-14 w -- his first-ever game-wng kick the fal sends of a game. " as Gay trad high-fiv wh rnerback Sean Murphy-Buntg the tunnel at Raymond Jam Stadium. "I would love to have one of those … as much as I n get 'em, ” said Gay, 25, the Bucs’ fifth-round draft pick.

”While ach Bce Arians is still adamant about keepg this a petn between Gay and Cairo Santos, ’s lookg more and more like the Bucs have found a solutn at the place-kicker prev week at Ptsburgh, Gay drilled a 55-yard field goal, tyg Mason Crosby for the longt field goal ma at Hez Field an NFL game (preason, regular season or postseason). Even before that, durg open trag mp practic, fans began standg up to rerd Gay’s kicks -- some exceedg 60 yards -- and would cheer loudly fan leaned toward another and said, “When his foot hs the ball, jt sounds different.

"Gay unrstands a big part of their excement is due to the tortured history Bucs fans have endured at the posn. "“I’m not worried about what happened before, ” Gay said.

MATT GAY ALG WH GRO JURY HEADG TO WEEK 16

"'I had to fight my way up'The youngt of eight wh five olr brothers, Gay followed his siblgs to soccer. “If I wanted to be wh them, I had to take , ” Gay said. “I stggled gettg back to soccer fns, beg able to go a full 90 mut nng on the field and playg, ” Gay said.

"The kickg was natural, the feelg was natural, " said Gay, who beme a two-time All-Amerin and ma a school-rerd eight field goals om 50 yards or longer jt two seasons.

MATT GAY IS THE LATT FACE OF HEARTBREAK TAMPA BAY, AND THAT’S A SHAME

"A lot of guys I thk sometim -- there's so much rmatn to procs -- and then stead of focg on kickg, you're focg on all the ltle thgs you've gotta do to then make the kick, " said Gay, who believ he benefed om not attendg kickg mps -- where everythg is so heavily dissected -- when he was younger. "‘You’ve got this part of you that’s missg’Gay still hasn’t found a place to live Tampa, and he won’t until the petn is cid.

Even if ’s tiltg heavily Gay’s favor right now, ’s still unnervg nsirg he and his wife, Milli, are expectg a baby boy due at the begng of September.

“I’ve been away om her for a while now, ” Gay said. ”If all go acrdg to plan, after the Bucs’ fourth preason game, Gay will fly to Utah so they n duce her to labor.

WHAT KICKER MATT GAY BRGS TO THE BUCS

“It’s good timg … good and bad timg, ” Gay said wh a chuckle. Tampa Bay Bucneers kicker Matt Gay says he was bullied growg up Utah bee of his last name and will wear special cleats to highlight anti-bullyg efforts. “Anti-bullyg is huge to me, ’’ Gay told the Tampa Bay Tim as he unveiled the cleats he will wear Sunday agast the Indianapolis Colts as part of the NFL’s “My Cse, My Cleats” mpaign, the one game a year where players n wear cleats rated to highlight a e they are passnate about.

“I’ve had some niec and nephews and fay members close to me that were strongly affected by , ” Gay said of the bullyg.

Matt Gay will wear the cleats Sunday.

RAMS' MATT GAY: MORE OF THE SAME W OVER BUCS

Kids n be very cel and n only image the abe Gay took simple by beg born wh a last name that is still a term of vective for young people.

Tampa Bay Bucneers kicker Matt Gay was a limed participant practice on Tuday due to a gro jury suffered Week 15. The Bucs play the Hoton Texans on Saturday, and given that Gay was at least limed, he would seem to be on track to play the game. Gay is rostered 81.

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